U.N. rights experts seek review of U.S. police practices
GENEVA (Reuters) – United Nations human rights experts on Friday called for a halt to racial profiling by U.S. law enforcement officers and a review of laws allowing police to use lethal force.
It’s try, try again for one U.S. Justice Department press release
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – In an unusual move, the U.S. Department of Justice late Thursday revised a nearly 10-month-old press release about the resolution of a Medicare overbilling probe, after one of the settling parties threatened to sue it for defamat…
FBI probes pedestrian death in Missouri as possible hate crime
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (Reuters) – The FBI is investigating the hit-and-run death of a 15-year-old boy struck while leaving the Somali Center of Kansas City as a possible hate crime, local authorities said on Friday.
Philadelphia treated to reruns of annual New Year’s Day Mummers Parade
PHILADELPHIA (Reuters) – (Story corrects first name in paragraph 4 to Vince)
France to pay $60 million for Holocaust victims deported by state rail firm
PARIS (Reuters) – France said on Friday it had agreed to put $60 million into a fund managed by the United States to compensate Holocaust victims deported by French state rail firm SNCF to Nazi death camps, a deal that protects it from future U.S. liti…
Suspect’s car found as manhunt continues in Florida triple murder
TAMPA, Fla. (Reuters) – A manhunt intensified on Friday for a suspect accused of killing his wife and her friend before shooting dead a pastor at a Florida church, after police said they had found the SUV the man was last seen driving but were still se…
Maryland high school evacuated after bomb threat, package found
(Reuters) – A Maryland high school was evacuated on Friday when a suspicious device was discovered outside the building after a bomb threat, a Baltimore County Police Department spokesman said.
Nobel medal for DNA discovery brings more than $4.7 million at auction
NEW YORK (Reuters) – The Nobel Prize gold medal awarded to the U.S. scientist and co-discoverer of DNA, James Watson, sold at auction on Thursday for more than $4.7 million, smashing the world record price for any Nobel prize.
Boehner vows to avoid government shutdown with help from Democrats
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Overriding objections from some conservative Republicans, U.S. House Speaker John Boehner vowed on Thursday to plow ahead with a spending bill that averts a government shutdown while keeping some budget “leverage” over President …
New Jersey panel finds no evidence governor involved in lane closures
(Reuters) – A New Jersey panel investigating lane closures to the George Washington Bridge last year, which sparked a political firestorm, said in an interim report it had found no evidence that Governor Chris Christie was involved, local media reporte…
